Williams, Wooten Best of JetHawks

Peanut Williams was selected player of the year and Greg Wooten was chosen pitcher of the year for the Lancaster JetHawks.

Williams batted .324 with 59 runs batted in and 26 home runs, a Lancaster single-season record for homers.

Wooten was 10-4 with a 4.33 earned-run average.

Brian Robinson, a member of the Lancaster Stealth fall team, was selected the Seattle Mariners’ minor league most valuable player. He batted .329 with 13 homers and 102 RBIs for the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in the Midwest League.

* Brian Horwitz, who batted .368 last season for Mission League co-champion Crespi High, has committed to California.

Horwitz played second base for the Celts as a junior but is moving to center field. He was recruited as an outfielder by the Golden Bears.

CROSS-COUNTRY

* Junior Jaclyn Pedersen of Royal High, defending Ventura County and Marmonte League girls’ champion, won’t race for the next three-to-four weeks because she has a stress fracture in her lower left leg.

In Pedersen’s only race this season, she finished 15th in the large schools race of the Ojai Invitational at Lake Casitas.

Kim Raia, Royal’s girls’ coach, hopes Pedersen will return for the county championships Oct. 29 or for the league finals Nov. 5.

SOCCER

* Sophomore forward Erin Broadwell of Cal State Northridge was named Big Sky Conference offensive player of the week.

Broadwell set school records with four goals and 10 points in Northridge’s 8-0 victory over The Master’s on Sept. 28.

In Northridge’s 3-1 victory over Oregon on Sunday , Broadwell had one goal and two assists.

She leads the Matadors with six goals and 15 points.

* Erin Misaki, from Hart High, had a goal and an assist, for Portland in a 2-1 victory over Washington in the championship game Sunday of the sixth annual Husky Nike Invitational at Seattle.

Misaki, The Times’ Valley girls’ player of the year last season, broke a scoreless tie with a rebound shot in the 50th minute. In the 53rd minute, Misaki set up Vanessa Talbot’s goal and Portland won the tournament for the third year in a row.

HONORS

* Nick Rodionoff, former swimming and diving coach at Birmingham High, was recently named recipient of the Fred A. Cady Memorial Coaches Award.

Rodionoff, who coached at Birmingham for 33 years before stepping down in 1997, is in his 15th season as coach of the Pepperdine women’s diving team. He coached the men’s team for 11 years before taking over the women’s squad.

The Cady award is presented biannually to coaches who have worked in diving for 25 years or more and consistently developed athletes in U.S. Diving programs.

FYI

* A four-day Amateur Athletic Foundation/California Interscholastic Federation basic clinic for soccer coaches is scheduled for the next two weekends at Moorpark College.

Attendance at the basic clinic is required for subsequent participation in two-day advanced clinics Oct. 23-24 at Long Beach City and Mt. San Antonio colleges.

Information: (323) 730-9627.

* An annual fall adult fishing derby is scheduled for 7-11 a.m. Nov. 6 at Apollo Park in Lancaster.

Participants must be 16 or older and have a valid California fishing license. Only one fishing pole per person will be permitted and a five-fish limit enforced.

Information: (661) 722-7780 or (661) 259-1750.